The chairman of the club’s playing committee, Nick Brown, said: “There was certainly plenty of entertainment for the spectators, I think it was comfortably the highest aggregate game in the Middlesex County League this season.

“We were certainly not helped when the new ball bounced off the back of a bus following a wide and couldn’t be found.

“The replacement ball was probably 40 overs old and Twickenham, who are a very aggressive batting team anyway, took full advantage and hammered it everywhere.

“We are disappointed to lose any game, but it was a pretty good chase and, in fact at 210-4 with 28 overs left, I think we were arguably favourites. But it wasn’t to be and credit to Twickenham, they kept attacking and their spinners bowled well.

“The club had a big end of season party on Saturday night, which was great. Regardless of us not defending our titles we weren’t going to linger on that. The club is in great shape and I have no doubt that we will be back in force in 2015.”

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